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About your questions:
1) Yes it's a bug. You should be able to use the sorcerer power after your last conquest unless a reinforcement die was just rolled.
2) There's no user switch to enforce the side by side mode or the board game mode. When the ipad is put on a table (horizontal), the game uses the board game mode (no UI rotation since it's a 2-player face to face mode).
As soon as you tilt the ipad towards you (about 30°), it automaticallly switches to the side by side mode. Then the UI of the active player is always in the appropriate orientation and the other player is upside down.
3) It's a bug that appeared recently due to an iOS upgrade (somewhere around the 4.2). We're investigating about this regression (music playback used to work before).

Kick ass with your amazons. Get a message that you need to give up a territory because you need to pull your 4 bonus amazons off. Ignore it and activate your stoic ability (ability to go into decline after attacks). Game will then go into a state where it cannot continue.

About your questions:
1) Yes it's a bug. You should be able to use the sorcerer power after your last conquest unless a reinforcement die was just rolled.
2) There's no user switch to enforce the side by side mode or the board game mode. When the ipad is put on a table (horizontal), the game uses the board game mode (no UI rotation since it's a 2-player face to face mode).
As soon as you tilt the ipad towards you (about 30°), it automaticallly switches to the side by side mode. Then the UI of the active player is always in the appropriate orientation and the other player is upside down.
3) It's a bug that appeared recently due to an iOS upgrade (somewhere around the 4.2). We're investigating about this regression (music playback used to work before).

Hi Gerald,

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond. You've done an amazing job with this game and my wife and I are loving it. Keep up the great work and thanks again for the answers.

Thanks for a great game all. Just wanted to note my interpretation of the Side by Side view of the game. When we pass the iPad around I would have expected the whole board to remain in the same orientation, rather than flipping and then using the current player's GUI.

Also wanted to bump the issue with the sorcerer not taking over target lands when only one unit is occupying. Tried a couple of times but couldn't seem to get this to work. Admittedly I have yet to read the noline rules, the quick play rules I guess assume an understanding of them in the first place - we've never played before

When you bring in the sorcerors as a new race it does not allow you to use the rod on an active enemy single token that is viable for attack.

By 'rod' I assume you mean their ability to replace one token with your own...there are a few things that might be preventing you from doing this when you enter the board:

1) You have to get yourself on the board before you can use this special power (I believe). So your very first conquest can't be with the 'rod'...you'll have to take a territory and then use the 'rod' on an enemy token.

2) Make sure you're trying to take over an Active race token...you can't take over any spots where an enemy is in decline with the 'rod'.

From your post it seems like you already know about #2, so I'm guessing the issue it #1.

1. Play as sorcerers.
2. Set up a conquer so that it will use up all of your remainging tokens in-hand (e.g. you have 4 tokens left and take a spot with 2 tokens on it)
3. Observe how you cannot use your sorcerer ability on regions adjacent to the one you just conquered, even if you haven't used the ability yet this turn. You get sent straight to redeploy phase.

Maybe this is actually according to the rules, but it seems wrong to me.

1. Play as sorcerers.
2. Set up a conquer so that it will use up all of your remainging tokens in-hand (e.g. you have 4 tokens left and take a spot with 2 tokens on it)
3. Observe how you cannot use your sorcerer ability on regions adjacent to the one you just conquered, even if you haven't used the ability yet this turn. You get sent straight to redeploy phase.

Maybe this is actually according to the rules, but it seems wrong to me.

No, I believe this is a bug and if I remember right, it's already been reported. Maybe it'll be fixed in the next update.

About your questions:
1) Yes it's a bug. You should be able to use the sorcerer power after your last conquest unless a reinforcement die was just rolled.

rasmussen81 wrote on Wed, 12 October 2011 15:04

duffman4evr wrote on Wed, 12 October 2011 07:35

Here is a possible bug:

1. Play as sorcerers.
2. Set up a conquer so that it will use up all of your remainging tokens in-hand (e.g. you have 4 tokens left and take a spot with 2 tokens on it)
3. Observe how you cannot use your sorcerer ability on regions adjacent to the one you just conquered, even if you haven't used the ability yet this turn. You get sent straight to redeploy phase.

Maybe this is actually according to the rules, but it seems wrong to me.

No, I believe this is a bug and if I remember right, it's already been reported. Maybe it'll be fixed in the next update.

Good catch, though!

Bought the app in the last hours of 2011, played first game today and ran into precisely this problem (twice). Strategy foiled, enemy not crushed, me unhappy.

Now I read the bug has been known since may last year , I feel strongly that it should warrant some attention of the crew.

Not sure if this is a bug, or maybe me misunderstanding the Gypsie ability.

Basically, when playing Gypsies you can choose to retract from a region, by paying one coin from your collected coins and returning the unit on hand, thus giving you more troops for conquest.

These areas are not available for conquest this turn, but once you collect your coins for this turn you get them back.

So, basically, if I have 15 coins on hand and my gypsies occupy 5 regions with 1 unit on each region (with another 4 units on hand) I can pay 5 coins (giving me 10 coins on hand) to have 9 units on hand.

With these 9 units I now conquer 3 new regions and thus I get three coins for these 3 regions, and I get back my 5 coins from before. In total I should now have 3 regions and 18 coins on hand.

That is how I have understood the rules for this special power, but that is now what happens when playing this race on the ipad. I manually counted the coins the computer got while playing Gypsies and it seemed like the computer never took these coins from his/her own hand, thus giving the computer 23 coins in my example above.

So, have I misunderstood the Gypsies special power, or is there a bug?

Not sure if this is a bug, or maybe me misunderstanding the Gypsie ability.

Basically, when playing Gypsies you can choose to retract from a region, by paying one coin from your collected coins and returning the unit on hand, thus giving you more troops for conquest.

These areas are not available for conquest this turn, but once you collect your coins for this turn you get them back.

I'll try to explain how the Gypsies work using your example:

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So, basically, if I have 15 coins on hand and my gypsies occupy 5 regions with 1 unit on each region (with another 4 units on hand) I can pay 5 coins (giving me 10 coins on hand) to have 9 units on hand.

With these 9 units I now conquer 3 new regions and thus I get three coins for these 3 regions, and I get back my 5 coins from before. In total I should now have 3 regions and 18 coins on hand.

This is not how the race works. Let me see if I can help you out.

When you abandon a region, you do NOT pay out of your pocket...instead, you place 1 coin from the tray (or the bank, if you will) on each region you abandon. Basically you get paid to abandon a spot. So in your example, you have 15 coins in hand...and you abandon 5 regions. You keep all 15 coins, and place 5 coins from the tray on the now-empty regions. You conquer 3 regions. At the end of your turn you get 3 coins for the regions you contol, +5 coins for the ones you abandoned, = 8 coins. Add those to your 15, you now have 23 coins in hand.

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That is how I have understood the rules for this special power, but that is now what happens when playing this race on the ipad. I manually counted the coins the computer got while playing Gypsies and it seemed like the computer never took these coins from his/her own hand, thus giving the computer 23 coins in my example above.

So, have I misunderstood the Gypsies special power, or is there a bug?

Thank you. That explains why the computer got more coins than I thought it would, and it also makes the Gypsies special power a bit more useful.

I'm glad to help!

Without getting paid to abandon regions the way they do, Gypsies would be exactly like every other race when they abandon regions...and would pretty much not have a Racial Power. They're actually one of my favorite races to use, when combined with the right Powers!